Eu might remove roaming charges

[LAwLz]

This Tuesday the UE parliament will vote on a proposal that will remove roaming charges. What this means is that you would be able to travel to any EU country and use your phone like normal, without any additional cost.

 

 

Neelie Kroes describes roaming charges as a "cash cow" for telecoms, which I completely agree with.

Sadly telecoms might raise the cost of domestic calls to make up for the lost profit.

They expect this to cost the industry 7 billion euro by 2020, and apparently roaming charges is one of the most profitable sources of revenue for telecoms. Telecoms are also kind of threatening by saying that this could slow down the roll out of 4G services since they won't make as much profit if this passes.

 

So basically, network operators like Three and Virgin Media are really pissed off because of this. Personally, I think they have been milking customers for far too long. Nobody should be allowed to charge what they do for a few MB of data. It's ridiculous. Good job EU, I hope it gets approved and telecoms have to suck it up. It will go into effect in December 2015 if it gets approved.

 

Source: The Guardian

[Nineshadow]

Yes pls.

[BernardoSLR]

Nice. That micro-USB shit though. FFS

[FloRolf]

woah, please please please!

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Another reason for me to not live in the US.

[ivhyn]

I'd love that!

[CtW]

I'm happy about this!!!!

[mrogicom]

Actually in Denmark we have one service provider planning this as far as i know

[matin94]

third thread of this news

[dragosudeki]

Lets hope other countries get the message and do the same. Roaming is stupid

[KakaoDj]

But they voted on this months ago?

We already knew the EU was gonna abolish roaming charges

[Admire]

The EU is bad for a lot of things but they have been awesome with some of the court rulings and legislation to help consumers.

 

Instead of the old US line where customers can go screw themselves.